Friday, March 21, 2008

Banned Boondocks Episodes Airing in Canada



One of the banned BET related Boondocks episodes apparently aired in Canada last Sunday on teletoons, with the second due to air this coming Sunday at 10:30pm. The episodes "The Huey Freeman Hunger Strike" and "The Ruckus Reality Show" were banned from the Cartoon Network in the States earlier this year, with only shorts clips leaking out onto youtube.

The Episode featured here aired last Sunday and is about BET's CEO, Debra Lee, who is depicted as "Debra Lee-vil," a sinister Dr. Evil clone who kills underlings and rants about creating a network "that would accomplish what hundreds of years of slavery, Jim Crow and malt liquor couldn't - the destruction of black people."

These two Boondocks episodes weren't banned because of language, sexual explicitness, or violence (though one of Debra's heels does get gruesomely lodged in an employees neck), but because the Time/Turner affiliations between the Cartoon Network and BET. Media conglomeration at it's best y'all. Check the episode out.

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